From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Carlos Rica" Subject: Little fix and suggestion for the git tutorial Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:45:01 +0200 Message-ID: <1b46aba20706210945h49139cc2y69d2de972f014189@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "J. Bruce Fields" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 21 18:45:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I1PmM-0001ww-6t for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:45:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753900AbXFUQpE (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:45:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753739AbXFUQpE (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:45:04 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:19137 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753537AbXFUQpC (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:45:02 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so394834wah for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:45:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=GR/pX03xv0PVAduJ89217gUGzRlst6wHdXmBBmn05xWLvMEdsQSIHNQ8hngQ2UKOI2ht3eak5hk9FQ1pyJiq6kz9YbM6JAzP9fAGQ01wi0xW2B9ZN1YsnTlu3xnuBcEe1PTcSCf9XBGn7xPeCn0cmGCXqAAnCg8/MbUKJ9NGyy8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Q63hiWUfofeAdyQs30bmMEw+XW2z15HZSh7koAXP8dy6Y4VRqSBtS9+vutbWCRXG2gVsEq6krH6lI0RmdyndZpOMgnVdriYmpTUq5XEFcltKQfmA1Y8d1gM6ekQFT9FemdTzB81PUkMokF+SG4kL4XqL9+d+jYQOiHwME6AUtZ4= Received: by 10.114.177.1 with SMTP id z1mr1822242wae.1182444301520; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:45:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.61.17 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:45:01 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sorry for not sending a patch, I was following the tutorial and found this, in the section "Using git for collaboration": 307 With this, you can perform the first operation alone using the 308 "git fetch" command without merging them with her own branch, 309 using: I think that "you" should be replaced with "she". I have a suggestion also that I don't know how to fix. The text in that section seems to say something like you need to add a "remote" alias to be able to run fetch for retrieving without merging: ...[remote add ]... 307 With this, you can perform the first operation alone using the 308 "git fetch" command without merging them with her own branch, 309 using: ....[fetch ]... 315 Unlike the longhand form, when Alice fetches from Bob using a 316 remote repository shorthand set up with `git remote`, what was 317 fetched is stored in a remote tracking branch, in this case 318 `bob/master`. So after this: I'm not sure, but I think that you could use fetch without the need of an alias. I think that here it is trying to avoid more advanced explanations or longer commands, however I don't know how to say it better, perhaps mentioning that this way it is easier, without omitting that it could be done without a "remote" alias for the repo. That's all, thank you